"Holy Motors" Blasts into Cinemas
on Monday, December 17, 2012
Early word on Holy Motors was that it's seriously loopy. But little could prepare filmgoers for this latest hallucination from director Leox Carax. It's a doozy. More than a decade has elapsed since the French auteurist last regaled -- or bedeviled ...
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Gregory Crewdson's Brief Encounters
on Monday, December 17, 2012
Gregory Crewdson’s photography isn’t like sausage: it’s best to see it being made. To watch Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters – coming soon to Netflix – is to crave a closer look at his haunting Beneath the Roses ...
Buon Appetito: Interview with Italian Chef Alessandra Rovati
on Friday, November 16, 2012
Imagine Italian food without tomato sauce. Venetian-born chef and writer Alessandra Rovati does, and when she comes to Greenwich for a March 4 cooking demo, she'll tell us about the remarkable role that the Jews played in matchmaking between Italy ...
Kati Marton's Paris Love Story
on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Paris: A Love Story is a contest between a city and a state (of mind) over which one will become the main subject. Kati Marton’s new book doubles as a valentine to the French capital and a réquiem for heartbreak and loss.
The author and ...
Eleanor Ehrenkranz Culls Jewish Poetry to "Explain Life"
on Friday, August 24, 2012
On November 27, when Eleanor Ehrenkranz presents her anthology of modern Yiddish, Israeli and American-Jewish poems, history will have come full circle. Dr. Ehrenkranz, an English professor at Pace University, conceived the idea for the book several ...
